| SOLACES | Comforts the best pilots under the sun |
| CORDIAL | From the Latin for "heart", a word meaning warm and friendly that also refers to a fruit drink, liqueur, pleasant medicine or anything that comforts the heart or revives the spirits (7) |
| SUCCOURS | Comforts the gullible through listening |
| OPTIMAL | Best pilot flying around Massachusetts (7) |
| SOLACE | The comfort the sun spot provides (6) |
| SOOTHE | Comfort the woman holding the beheaded bird (6) |
| DAYSINN | "The best value under the sun" sloganeer |
| EPITAPH | In diocese of Norwich regulations, "____s should honour the dead, comfort the living and inform posterity" |
| ART | It "should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable," according to a saying |
| ALEX | Comfort the writer |
| CHEER | Comfort the Church always provides |
| THERE | It's said to comfort the monarch when upset |
| CHEERIO | Greeting to comfort the daughter of Inachus? (7) |
| EASEL | Rest of painters comfort the terminally ill (5) |
| CONSOLE | Comfort the control panel (7) |
| CLUNGUNFORD | One of the four villages which "are the quietest places under the sun", according to A.E. Housman (11) |
| JAMESMASON | British actor, star of films including Lolita and The Boys from Brazil, who was also in the cast of Evil Under the Sun, a big screen adaptation of an Agatha Christie novel that was shot in Mallorca (5 |
| OUTDOOR | Best alternative under the sun |
| AMENITY | A creature comfort, the last word. It is at journey's end (7) |
| SALTPAN | A depression in the ground that leaves a crystalline substance, often shining white under the sun (7) |
